• New Sequence Variants in HLA Class II/III Region Associated with Susceptibility to Knee Osteoarthritis Identified by Genome-Wide Association Study 

      Nakajima, M.; Takahashi, A.; Kou, I.; Rodriguez-Fontenla, C.; Gomez-Reino, J. J.; Furuichi, T.; Dai, J.; Sudo, A.; Uchida, A.; Fukui, N.; Kubo, M.; Kamatani, N.; Tsunoda, T.; Malizos, K. N.; Tsezou, A.; Gonzalez, A.; Nakamura, Y.; Ikegawa, S. (2010)
      Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common disease that has a definite genetic component. Only a few OA susceptibility genes that have definite functional evidence and replication of association have been reported, however. Through ...
    • Recommendations for standardization and phenotype definitions in genetic studies of osteoarthritis: the TREAT-OA consortium 

      Kerkhof, H. J. M.; Meulenbelt, I.; Akune, T.; Arden, N. K.; Aromaa, A.; Bierma-Zeinstra, S. M. A.; Carr, A.; Cooper, C.; Dai, J.; Doherty, M.; Doherty, S. A.; Felson, D.; Gonzalez, A.; Gordon, A.; Harilainen, A.; Hart, D. J.; Hauksson, V. B.; Heliovaara, M.; Hofman, A.; Ikegawa, S.; Ingvarsson, T.; Jiang, Q.; Jonsson, H.; Jonsdottir, I.; Kawaguchi, H.; Kloppenburg, M.; Kujala, U. M.; Lane, N. E.; Leino-Arjas, P.; Lohmander, L. S.; Luyten, F. P.; Malizos, K. N.; Nakajima, M.; Nevitt, M. C.; Pols, H. A. P.; Rivadeneira, F.; Shi, D.; Slagboom, E.; Spector, T. D.; Stefansson, K.; Sudo, A.; Tamm, A.; Tamm, A. E.; Tsezou, A.; Uchida, A.; Uitterlinden, A. G.; Wilkinson, J. M.; Yoshimura, N.; Valdes, A. M.; van Meurs, J. B. J. (2011)
      Objective: To address the need for standardization of osteoarthritis (OA) phenotypes by examining the effect of heterogeneity among symptomatic (SOA) and radiographic osteoarthritis (ROA) phenotypes. Methods: Descriptions ...